F1 TREASURES II

This time the flea market had to offer a Formula One card game. 

It's quite simple actually. You can play two games with these or make up your own rules. 

The first game is very stupid and has nothing to do with F1 if you ask me. You just collect cards from your opponents that have the same letters (every card has a number and a letter). When you have all the numbers from one letter you win.

The second game is better but not so spectacular either. Every card has a picture of an F1 car, info about the speed, RPM etc. The point is that the players take one card and the one who's turn it is says for example the speed that is shown on his card. Then the one who has the highest on their own card wins the round and collects the cards from the others. The one who has the most cards when they run out wins.

I found it much more interesting just reading the information about the different cars.

The price I paid was only 50 cents so it doesn't really matter if this game wasn't that good.

Mark Webber's 2nd time on Top Gear (2013)

Mark Webber was recently on Top Gear again. Check it!

Which country is the most successful in Formula One?

Jim Clark from Great Britain in his Lotus

Here are the top 5 countries:

(all the victories are not made by world champions)

1. Great Britain - 226 victories, 14 world championships / 10 world champions (Mike Hawthorn, Graham Hill, Jim Clark, John Surtees, Jackie Stewart, James Hunt, Nigel Mansell, Damon Hill, Lewis Hamilton, Jenson Button)

2. Germany - 136 victories, 10 world championships / 2 world champions (Michael Schumacher, Sebastian Vettel)

3. Brazil - 101 victories, 8 world championships / 3 world champions (Emerson Fittipaldi, Nelson Piquet, Ayrton Senna)

4. France - 79 victories, 4 world championships / 1 world champion (Alain Prost)

5. Finland - 46 victories, 4 world championships / 3 world champions (Keke Rosberg, Mika Häkkinen, Kimi Räikkönen)

But is it fair to compare these countries like this? Some countries are much bigger than others and some have much more people.

If you would divide by the population then Finland would be number one. Finland is also the most successful of the countries that doesn't have a home grand prix.

Then on the other hand there is a lot of countries that have GP's but no drivers at the moment in F1 (China, Abu Dhabi / Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Singapore, Malaysia, Belgium, Canada, United States, Korea, Hungary, Monaco, India).

These are just statistics and useless facts. The drivers don't drive for their countries, they are driving for their teams.

The most successful teams in F1 history are: 

1. Ferrari - 221 victories
2. McLaren - 182 victories
3. Williams - 114 victories
4. Lotus - 79 victories
5. Red Bull - 37 victories

I'll ramble some more about random F1 records and statistics tomorrow.

F1 Top Gear: Lewis Hamilton Drives Ayrton Senna's MP4/4 F1 Car

Lewis Hamilton drives Ayrton Senna's McLaren Honda.

The race after Ayrton Senna's death

Here we have the full 1994 Monaco GP. Right after Ayrton Senna's death. Almost 20 years ago.

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